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Summer SoiIing.

There are several ways of economizing
grass used as pasture or other pasturing
crops. The great waste of pasturing is
in the tramping of the stock and in the
fouling by the cxcrement. This loss is q
very large item where land is high in
value and where it costs large sum to
get we'll set pasture. In such cases
there is large economy in soiling. This
may be done not only by cutting the fod-
der and feeding it in stables and yards.
but also by lettering the COWS, and with
sheep by providing light movable hur-
dies or fence panels, which may be set up
or taken down and removed with great
ease. The movable fences may be used
for contining cows as we'll as for sheep.
There are several kinds of them in use.
The cattle of the islands of Jersey and
Guernsey are all tethcred, and it is to this
economical management that the small
farms of those fertile islands are able to
support a COW on less than an acre of
land. This method is also extensively
used in the western part of France, where
the farms arc small and yet keep a large
number of cattle. Small fields of COLA
"a variety of rape) and OF clover may be
seen there, with the COWS tethcrcd in
ranks, each one having so many feet of
fodder to consume each day. The cows
are secured by strong leather neck straps,
having rings sewn in them, and chain
or rope with snaplock at one end and a
large ring at the other. The snaplock
is fastened to the ring in the neck strap,
and the large ring is dropped over the
lettering stake. When feeding down
The grass on the lawn and under the fruit
trees in the orchard the writer has useol a
light chain about twenty feet long, with
aswivel in it, and attached to a revolving
ring or clevis in the head of an iron
pin, which is driven into the ground.
Tethering chains of the same kind have
been found very useful in feeding down
green clover in the fields, giving the cows
strip about six or eight feet wide. in
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

We count words as nothing; yet etef-
nifty depends upon them.
Trials wear us into liking of what
possibly in the first essay displeased us.
When desperate ills demand speedy
cure, distrust is cowardice and prudence
folly.
Poorness of memory every one COM
plains of, but nobody of the want OF
judgment.
He who thinks too much of himself
will be in danger of being forgotten by
the rest of the world.
A man must be excessively stupid, as
we'll as uncharitable, who believes, there
is no virtue but on his own side.
Those that place their hope in another
world have in a great measure con-
quered dread of death and unreasonable
love of life.
Life often seems like long shipwreck,
of which the debris are friendship, glory
and love; the shores of existence are
strewn with them.
The heart is q small thing, but de-
Slreth great matters. IL Is nOC suiACleus
for kites dinner, yet the whole world Is
not sufficient for it.
If doing what ought to be done be
made the first business, and success 8
secondary consideration, is not this the
way to exalt virtue?
No soul was ever lost because its fresh
beginning broke down; but thousands Of
souls have been lost because they would
not make fresh beginnings. zxi
Death does not destroy, but catches,
crystallizes, and makes permanent the.
character of good man, leaving it
priceless beauest to society. q
1t seems to me we can never glveup
longing and wishing while we are thor
ouehlY alive. There are certain things
we feel to be beautiful and good, and we
must hunger after them.
Early rising not only gives us more LIE
in the same number of our years, but adds
likewise to their number; and not only
enables us to enjoy more OF existence IN
the same measure of time, but increases
also the measure
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Missed Seeding of Grain.

1t often happens that strips of land
through grain fields are accidentally left
unseedcd, and the mistake is not discov-
cred until the grain is up. In most cases
little is gained by trying to seed after the
main crop is above the surface, especially
with spring grain, which natures so
quickly after sowing. The entire width
of drill for short space will at harvest
time scarcely be noticed, as the grain on
either side will spread so that the tops
nearly cover the vacant space. Usually
if the stoppage has been from the grain
giving out, some tubes will run most OF
the way across the field, and these will
help fill up, often suggesting that far less
seed is required for good crop than is
generally supposed. A failure of grass or
clover seeding is really a worse evil than
the loss of strip of grain, and if there
are many bad faults in the grass seeding
it were better to plow all up and try it
again. For where clover and grass fail
to catch the vacancies will certainly be
filled with weeds.
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How Cabinet Meetings Are Conducted.

An ex-Cabinet member was asked by q
newspaper interviewer:
"What is the process in q Cabinet
meeting of beginning the businessf Does
the President 60 through his Cabinet with
system, or do they just walk around and
have confab?"
"No," was the reply. president Ar.
thur, when the time arrived for Cabinet
conference, took his seat at the head OF
the table. He would turn to the Secre-
tary of State and say: Mr.. Secretary OF
State, is there anything in your depart
ment requiring our attentionP If the
Secretary of State passed, he would say:
Mr.. Secretary of the Treasury, 'or Mr..
Attorney General, have you something
we should attend toe In that way he
went the rounds calling every man by
his official title. Sometimes the first
man asked would bring up question
that would take the entire time of the
meeting up. At other times there would
be no questions in any department re-
curing attention. Often political quss-
tions would take the place of mere official
business. A Government is much more
of political organization than outsiders
believe. The President invites to his
Cabinet those men who represent their
party as we'll as their country. Of course,
the political discussion is in the light OF
public business as we'll"
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Floral Hints.

In hot, dry weather, gladioli will re-
pay the attention of a mulch of rotten
manure over the beds, and applying
water freely if thought needful. 1t is
the right course to place supports in the
earliest stages of the spikes, as the broad
leaves are much acted upon by gales of
wind, and if the roots get loosened the
plants soon suffer.
These having spots about the home so
shady that grass will not grow, may rely
upon the hardy ferns for establishment.
Wild ferns abound in all parts of the
country, in woods and waste places, and
can usually be had for the digging.
Many persons gather seeds for the sea-
son all in one day, and that far along in
the se:son. 1t is better to commence
with the first flower of spring, and keep
it up all through the season. A CORE
spondent writes that she usually carries
in her pocket small ball of twine, and
when she sees an extra fine flower from
which she would like seed she ties bit
of twine around the stem, and when
among the flowers she is always on the
lookout for the ripened seeds of such.
These she gathers and ties up in the cor
ner of her handkerchief, or in cheese
cloth, narrowly hemmed for the purpose,
which she has provided expressly for
gathering seeds in.
Phlox and pansy seeds must be COW
cred with something to admit air yet re-
tain the seeds, else they will fly away
while curing. Morning glory, phlox,
and other kinds with heavy seeds and
light shells can be easily cleaned by put
ting in cup, shaking this and blowing
iuto it slightly or hard, according to the
kind of seeds. Fine seeds with coarse
husks can easily be separated by sitting,
and still others, like scabiosa and calen-
dula, require no cleaning - Cultigator.
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Twelve Great Glasses Of Plants.

Twelve of the great classes of plant
are classified by botanists as follows:
I. Crowfoot or Buttercup Family. But
t,l cup. 2. Columbine. 3. Larkspur. 4; Blacl
Snake-root. 5. Anemene, b. Virgins Bower
II. Mustard Family, or Cruciferae.-l
Water Cress. 2. Mustard. 3. Shepherd:
Purse. 4. Radish. S. Turnip. 6. Swee
III Pink Family. l. Pink or Carnation
Q. Soapwort. 3. Bladder Campion. l. Corr
Cookie. ). Chick-weed .. Sand Wort. ,
". Pulse Family. /. Pea. 2 Bean: 3
Wild Indigo. o
3. Five-Finger. 4. Strawberry. S. Bran
BILE. t. Rose.
VI. Parsley Family. l. Carrot. 2. Par
snip 8. Poison Hemlock. 4. Sweet Cicely
5. Water Hem!ock. 6. Black Snakeroot.
VII. Composite or Aster Family. l. ASter
2. Daisy. 3. Tansy. T. Marigold. 5. Sun
flower. 6. Chamomile.
VIII. Mint Family. l. Mint. 2 Thyme
3. Sage. T. Cat-Mint. 5. Horehound. b
TX. Nightshade Family. l. Bitter.sweet
.. Ground Cherry. g. Tomato. f. Potato
). Tobacco. 6. Thornapple or jamestown
K. Oak Family. l. Oak. 2. Chestnut
3. Beech. 4. Filbert. 5. ron-woou' o
Chinquapin. .,,,,.
XI. Lily FAMILY. Lily. 2 Solomons
Seal. 8. Asparagus. 4. Star OF belnienem
xii Grass Family. Meadow Grass. 2
Wheat. 3. Barley. 4. Rye. D. oats'
Broom Corn.
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Silver on Their SOles.

The workmen in Mexican silver mines
become so skilful in stealing silver that
the owners employ detectives to work
with them. An owner tells this story
"One day detective came to me and
said when such and such men came out
to examine their sandals. l had that
done. On the bottoms of the sandals
was what appeared to be mud, but when
it was scraped into pan and worked /
found that it ran at the rate of So, 900 to
the ton. My miners had plastered thin
layer of mud from the mine over the
leather, and.th sprinkled on the parti-
cles of silver, and over all had put an,
other layer of mud. They were working
for 37t cents day, and carrying out
fifty cents worth of silver on the sole OF
each sandal"
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the shape of a curve in front of them, for
their meal. There is some little difficulty
in placing the COWS, and when ten or
twenty are kept it is better to have NOV
able hurdles for enclosing them and pro-
tecting the crop. But where single
cow or two or three are kept this method
is quite practicable and convenient. The
best hurdle is a simple panel nine feet
long, made of light narrow boards, just
as a board fence is made, and with up
right bars of the same material. The
ends of the boards project beyond the
end bars about six inches, so that when
two are placed overlapping, fence wire
ring, can be slipped over these ends and
secure them. Stakes are driven down,
three to each panel, and the panels are
held by them quite firmly by driving
two on one side and one on the other al
ternately.
a. very good hurdle has been made of
round poles sixteen feet long with stakes
or spokes fixed in them in holes bored
through, thus forming rows of stakes
on both sides about twelve inches apart
the whole length. A second set is put
in crosswise with the first row. This
hurdle is turned over and over as it is
required to advance it. But for moving
distance it is not so handy as the plain
board hurdle.
1t is impossible to keep cows or sheep
with economy and profit unless some pro-
vision is made for Summer feeding, and
for this purpose the annual plants, which
grow quickly. are better than grass.
They yield large product to the acre,
and may be changed from one year to
another. And these annual forage crops
must be considerable dependence also
for the Winter feeding as cured fodder
-NeW York Times.
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Pedal Measurements.

The size of the foot varies in indlvid-
uals within wide limits, but the average
length among different peoples is pretty
constant, and would appear, with certain
exceptions, to be an indication OF the de-
gree of civilization to which the commu-
nifty had attained. Thus, according to
a series of measurements collected from
various sources, we find the proportion
ate length of the foot to the height of the
individual, represented by 100, to be as
follows: Parisians, 4.S; Russians, 1916; 4;
Hungarians, 15.4; Chinese, 15.1; Aus
tralian aborigines, 15.1 Alge-ians, 14.S.
Medical Record.
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The Face at the Window.

Here is an item for the lovers of the
marvellous: "a young woman not long
ago was married to soldier stationed at
Fort Union, New Mexico. After the
marriage he returned to his post and she
resumed her duties as domestic IN a
Denver family. A few nights ago, while
sitting in the kitchen, she heard several
distinct raps upon the window: Look
ing up she saw the face of her husband.
She ran to the door, opened it, and, call
ing, found no one on the outside. Ihsn
she tainted. Soon after she received a
telegram saying that her husband had
died at Union just about the hour when
she saw bis face at the window"
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A SONG OF THE SUNSET LAND.

In the far-off hills of the sunset land;
In the land where the long grass bends and
quivers,
Where the ghosts of night and morning stand
By the CLEANS and dreams of the lonely
r.vers,
Where the brown sedge waving, stoops and
shivers
At the waters edge in the sunset land
Through the trackless paths of the sunset
land;
Where the silence broodS in dream un-
broken,
And the days slip by like grains of sand,
Where the song unsung and the word un-
spoken,
Seem like part of namlesS token
Of the wild gray wastes of the sunset land.
On the snow clad peaks of the sunset land;
As they rise in the clouds so near to heaven
In shadowy vastness, stern and grand,
Where gaunt o!d pines by the lightning
riven,
Moan in the wind, through their branches
driven,
On the crags and cliffs of the sunset land.
Mid the rolling plains of the sunset land,
Where the echoes drift on the tufted
heather
In the wake of breezes sweet and bland;
Where the shadows go in troop together
Across the haze of the fair June weather
In the grassy dells of the sunset land.
BY the wand'ring streams of the sunset land,
Where the ripples rise mid the tall reeds
bending
And float away to an unknown strand;
And the shade and the sunlight slow de-
scending
Fall where the voice of the waters blend
ing
Sings of the sunset land.
Ernest McGafey. in Inter Ocean.
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THE SUMMER DAYS.

The summer days are long and sweet
Oh, sweet and long
We sit and list at Natures feet
Unto her song.
We dream and dream through days so rare,
Oh, life is sweet!
With birds and flowers and tender air,
And sunshine deep.
Fair youth and love go hand in hand,
In life's bright spring;
Love uses we'll his magic wand
Sweet spoils to bring.
Young hearts, be happy while ye may,
For youth is fleet;
The path lies not again this way
For thy swift feet
Then dream and sing thy happy song
Through summertide;
Mlrth, innocence and JOY belong
And with thee bide
Sarah p Mclean, in the Current.
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A Great Poets First Effort.

A certain travelling man recently dis
covered that he is great poet, and this
is how he found it out:
Oh, little girls. always practice economy, -,
Even your slate pencils, save them up with
care,
For some day when you no longer need them
to do sums with,
You can use them heated to curl your soft
golden a'!.
Merchant -1rdpeler.
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Statistics show that the churches Of
the United States have commandments as
follows: Methodist Episcopal, 4,S46,-
SIG; Roman Catholic, 1000, 900; Epis-
copal, 43O, ,531; Moravian, 1O,6S6; Bap-
tist, S,6s2, ,OO7: Congregationalist, 1885,
379; Christian Union, 120, COO; Friends,
1O5, 900; Adventist, 97,7l1; Methodist,
$3.50; Presbyterian, 1852, 436; Lu-
theran, 03O,s Reformed, 259,974;
German Evangelical, 1875, 900; Mennon-
ties, 1000; Church of God, $4,000.
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A certain amount of opposition is a
great help to man. Kites rise against and
not with the wind. Even head wlnd L
better than none. No man ever worked
his passage anywhere in dead calm. Let
no man wax pale, therefore, because OF
opposition.
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A San Francisco exchange tells that in
California there are at least 1000 vine
growers and the area planted in vines i
n q 1t less than 100, 900 acres.
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Tennyson is reported in failing health,
and discussion is already rife as to whs
will succeed him as Laureate.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-11-26
THE JUDICIARY

Abe. soyn;an L-M"A: ~. ~
Forks: y. i. ~imii' Sc.
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DO Americans Work Too Hard,

1t is said that the American people work
harder to obtain the almighty dollar than
any other people or nation in the world,
wllo they arc more lavish in spending when
they get it. This may lie true or not, but they
certainly get more dollars for the same work
than any other people, and they nre not gem
cra!ly psnurious in spending them for their
own comfort and pleasure, or mean i'll up
pr"priating them for charity and all good
works.
1t is certainly true, also, that many pro
fcssIonal and business men, lawyers doctors.
merchants, etc, including some public OIL
c.i', especially in our large cities, work too
nMfl ply y>ical excrtion, protructed for too long
time without proper recreacton Tie
worliingmen aid laboring classes also COM
plain OF working too hard, and the great
questions OF tie cay are those OF labor and
wages" which claim attention through
Strikes labor organizations, socialistic and
anarchical demonstrations.
The gu 'stion, "Do Americans work too
hnrdP requires distinction to be made be.
tween natives and foreigners who form 50
large portion of the population
OF tho United States. Foreigners prin.
cipally perform what is considered ,h.
hardest work. building railroads, mining
coal, and other laborious employment, unl
whether they work too lard. i'll fact, or harder
than Americans generally in otaer occupa-
tions, is question which might be co sidered
by itself. They probably do not work harder
in this than i'll their own country or they
would not continue to come here in such
large numbers. Both Americans aud for
eisners, however, will probably clam that
they have to work "too hard. City Comp
iroller Loew in Tho Epoch.
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summers Financial Circumstance,

Mr. S,innor always lived within his i'll
come and never incurred debt that hr l;sl
no, the means of pay ing NJ thu time Il, be-
came ,iur. Within hs income llr WA, iii At
just, then generous l'ur.:, hi fin term in
tho Senate, Ii" was d, i. All ut upon hi, pny
us senator and n lltl. copyright money for
his support, although during a portion Of
that time he added somewlla; To Ii S i,,.omo
by lectures. In his a!t'r days, however, he
was ndcrcd som what easier in clcum-
stan es by Il small i"r,une that came to Lin
by the successive ,!u,.,ll of several relatives
For much OF Iii Iir he was II poor man i'm
Strengthened circumstances, hut lie woull
never be obliget t, any ona for any.hi:.. I,ut
kinin,ss. He would not nllow another topav
amy expense that hr incurred, not even a
horse car fare. Willis making speeches dur
ing the presidential elections lie would never
allow tho congressman in whose district lie
spoke, and who was to be most benefited ly
his efforts, to pny even his railroad fare
IL" was no ifttaker; he would interchange
gifts us well rs kind offices with others but
the balance of the obligation always remained
on his si'lc. His generosity to the servants II
the houses in which he lived was provcrbial.
Sam Ward said that hc lived like a pa,,per
but gave like king. No one can wonder
that tho servants even temporarily in his
employ were attached TO him, when his con-
sideratlon for. MS well as hi, generosity to,
them is fully understood But wilhul he kept
within lis income; barely, it may hr, but
still within. He was scrupulously conscicn-
ti"uS and never took doubtful do,lur.
Arnold Burges johnson in Tho Cosmopolitan,
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THE AMERICAS VICTORY.
Description of Famous Hace.Yacl
Huildinl, in Enrlan.l

Description of Famous Race.Yacht
Building in England.
Ir. ID. went on to describe some of the
scenes attending that great victory which he
witnessed from the Isle of Wight
Inc America beat the Euglishmcn twice in
i!ia' race, he said; she just simply sauntered
a";tv from them from the start without the
'2l.r't apparent effort, and 10y the time she
h;i reached the point where tie course turns
around tho l>!e they We're all out of sight.
dust at that pcint, however, tho tide runs
like Il mil race and it was going out. Tho
yacht stood OF aud on, and nude every efro,,
tor"h'lrlue, aud bothered, about there till the
rest ot the racing fleet overlook her; by that
time She got moro lccwny and managed to
slap through. and in five minutes was simply
vanishing oif the horizon of the other fellows.
She beat them just rs had to the finish, and
the lookout from unl, who was shouting
down points to the other fellows, who stood
b'low, cried out that the yacht was in sight.
NV hos ah"a,l! IN American called out.
The America, answered the lookout. And
who's nexiF beloved an Englishnan. NO.
body Is next was the reply, and Mt that word
fellow from tho states began to swear from
pure joy, and catching his nrighboias coat
tails enthusiastically tore tho garment in two.
10 the great satisfaction Of both of them,
Ihc London papers next day were corkers.
illcy abused their own people in choicest
Journalistic biIlingssatc. 'The Anlerica.
they said, 'hns shown us that our boats are
turned around wrong side before, that our
stern post is where our bow ought to bc. and
these Yankees have proved very conclusively
that We, II marine people, don't know the first
principles of boat building The whole coun-
try eat crow, can tell you and that ono day
rcv"lutionized the whole business of Yacht
buil,!img i'll England
Tho apparently unexplainable mistakes of
the English in tho matter Of building boats is
attributed to their tonnage and navigation
laws. Their whole effort was directed toward
getting as much storage room as possible
while cvading us far as practicable the
peculiar system Of impost. The result was
that all their craft were affected by this
tendency, and their yachts had the full round
bows and narrow keel that you find in their
fishing boats today. As the papers said, their
boats were turned hind silo bcfore,-Brook
lyn E,nplp